Wednesday, January 02, 2008

New Year's Resolutions

-- Tagged articles. "Conversations with Tyrone" may be its own tag. Hell, just those entries alone would probably support more blog traffic than everything else combined ...

-- More pilot/tv blogging. I was waiting to see if we could recover more of the shots I took during the shoot, but no, the drive's fragged. So we return picture-less soon.

-- More cackling over Huckabee and Ron Paul. And despair over the prospect of a Clinton caucus win. So that balances out.

-- Notes on transferring from hardware dependency to an information cloud. That is, more writing as I'm doing now on my damn liquid sex Asus Eeepc, with scripts and documents composed with online/open source programs, and less reliance on gadgetry and tech-clutter. At the risk of sounding filthily pretentious, I'd like to see if it's possible to just be a floating... information node rather than a discrete bit of walking data and chips. For what it's worth I've written the previous two issues of Blue Beetle on Google Docs. Can I run a TV show on such software? Write scripts, or a novel? I don't know. Let's find out.

-- More agitating for the end of The Clown Show, also known as the Bush Republican Theory of Governance. We get it -- you don't like the government *. So stop trying to run it, and leave it to people who will actually use it in a constructive manner. Oh, and there'll be more Baby Boomer slagging in there for you.

-- More alt media articles, including a few I'm tuning for publication.

-- Excerpts from the Doomed (pulp sci fi) Novel. If only so Geoff and Wil can keep me honest.

-- More success stories about people reclaiming storytelling and physical production from Hollywood. C'mon people, a mid-sized Midwestern college probably has more and better film equipment than half the Canadian industry, and they managed to make Corner Gas. Knock our socks off and steal our jobs. Nothing would delight me more. As ever, the central mantra of this site is: "COME GET MY JOB." You know you'd be better at it. So sack up and ride.

Snow squeakin' cold here in S. Ontario. Cripes. Busy preparing to scare the crap out of the folks I used to work for. Alliance/Atlantis can lick me where I stink. Die old industry, die. All the best to you Senor Rogers, in this new year and many more. Cheers.

The Bush administration provides an endless list of things to criticize them for, so it strikes me as unfair to criticize them for the one thing they have been good about -- brown people.

The cabinet might be full of clowns, but it's a diverse set of clowns.

And if you look at the real turning point in American opinion of Bush, it was triggered when he started promoting amnesty for illegal immigrants and various other surprisingly progressive measures to overhaul that system. The hating on brown people is far more an American public thing than a Bush thing, and, sadly, it took that racism for Bush's supporters to finally look at his policies with a critical eye.

Great to see an already-pro using Google Docs for their work -- I've been using it for most everything recently and it's great (especially for grabbing some time during work hours). You could write a novel on it easily, and it's made for notes and outlines, but I'm not so sure about screenwriting (mainly because of the formatting). Guess if you wrote it and then reformatted it somewhere else...

And that io9 looks not bad at all ... surprised it took someone this long to put such a blog together.

Reader questions, huh? OK. Tell us about your transition from stand-up to scriptwriter. Who and what influenced that decision?

Is the WGA strike damaging personal relationships in the industry? I mean, sure, X might be pissed at Y individually, but it seems unlikely that there will be any sort of systematic change in the way H-town does business.

But the funny thing about io9 is that I've seen John praise it, William Gibson praise it, John Scalzi praise it ... etc ... and only Ellis hate it.

No doubt it just doesn't offer Ellis what he wants to see from such a site, but my impression is that it doesn't suck, either.

From what I've seen, seems quite fun ... sometimes relevant, sometimes not so ... like any other blog. Funny it took someone so long to identify this specific and obvious geek-niche (though Boing Boing no doubt is halfway there).

It's Warren Ellis' job to hate. Given his high standards for online and print sci-fi journals, and their lack of well, existance, I can see a point there but then Gawker Media isn't exactly shooting for cutting edge content. It's digital candy. Complaining about io9 being mostly fluff (and on the day it goes live, no less; what else are they going to do until everyone gets up and running at full speed?) is like complaining that Wonkette has shallow gossipy commentary that demeans the political process. Well, yeah, that's the point!

Anyway, it's a fine site and they already have one or two solid posts arguing various ideas. I especially liked the post about why the new star Trek movie should be abandoned and maybe set on fire.

I just got an EEE too but I'm finding it hard to write on. It's good for short writing sessions but for the more prolonged ones ...not so much. That said I have been using the clutter free abiword a lot on both computers.

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